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The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Catalogue entry
FWN 1520
Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves
1904–06
Alternate titles: Chemin des Lauves: The Turn in the Road; Haus nahe der Biegung des Chemin des Lauves (Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves); House near Bend at Top of the Chemin des Lauves; Houses in the Valley; Maison dans la vallée (chemin des Lauves); Maison près d'un tournant en haut, Chemin des Lauves; Maisons dans la vallée; Provencelandschaft
Rewald (W629); Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1037): 1900–04; Gowing: 1906
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
Watermark: MONTGOLFIER SAINT MARCEL LES ANNONAY
18 7/8 x 23 1/16 in. (47.9 x 58.6 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Rosengart/Thannhauser, Lucerne (June 26, 1929)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York (by 1956);
Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, New York (1985)
Exhibition History
1935 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 205, as Provencelandschaft, Aquarelle; tentative identification, for sale.1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 112, as Houses in the Valley, 1900-04, lent by Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Thannhauser, New York. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 84, ill. lent by Pearlman.1956c New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 22, ill. lent by Henry Pearlman collection.1958 Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958.1959 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 14.1959g New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 29, ill. in b/w, as Maison dans la vallée (chemin des Lauves).1963f New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 66, pl. LXV, as Maisons dans la vallée, 1902-1906, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York.1963b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.1964 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 12.1965 Utica
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, 1965, no. 6.1967 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 15.1967 Pasadena
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 33, ill.1968b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 2.1971a New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 15.1973 New York
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 11, ill.1974 Brooklyn and traveling
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 42, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.1977–78 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 112, ill., pl. 112, as House near Bend at Top of the Chemin des Lauves, 1904-06, lent by Estate of Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 80, ill., as Haus nahe der Biegung des Chemin des Lauves (Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves), c. 1904, lent by Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 39, ill., as Maison près d'un tournant en haut, Chemin des Lauves, 1904-06, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.2002–03 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003. (Exhibition catalogue: Simms 2002), no. 13, ill.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 142, ill. lent by Pearlman Foundation; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.2014–16 Oxford and traveling
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 21. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.2018 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 183, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1037, ill. vol. II, as Maisons dans la vallée.Munro 1956
Munro, E.C. "Cézanne Watercolors." Art News (March 1956), p. 50.Chanin 1960
Chanin, A.L. "The Henry Pearlman Collection." Connoisseur 145, no. 586 (June 1960), p. 230, ill. p. 235.Portfolio of Watercolors 1965
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.Portfolio of Watercolors 1972
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.Gowing 1977
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 69-70.Rewald 1977b
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, ill. (with photograph of the motif) and pl. 112.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 629, ill. and color pl. 47.Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 18, as Chemin des Lauves: The Turn in the Road, c. 1904-06.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 135.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 347; vol. 2, p. 227, as Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves.Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 149, fig. 107.Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 13, fig. 1c, as Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves.Simms 2014b
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 167, fig. 108 (cat. 21).Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 258, fig. 184, dated 1906.
Photograph of the motif, a copy of which was found in Cézanne's Lauves studio.
Courtesy John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: possibly Emile Bernard, 1904
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maison près d'un tournant en haut du Chemin des Lauves, 1904–06 (FWN 1520)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1612 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
